A work inspired by the
ascetic work of St. John of Sinai,
known as St. John Climacus. This is a
portable icon dating from either
the 12th or 13th century.

One other curious commonality in older legends,
especially those of
smaller nations and tribes, is the theme of a ladder
between Heaven and
Earth. We have included it in our study of the
possibly of Ancient Star*Gates
because the analogy of a bridge or crossing over point
between the two
realms is the same concept. The various ladder legends
around the globe
also include several other important commonalties..
That of the "Tree that
has its Roots in the Earth and its Branches in Heaven"
or the World Tree;...
and the fact that the sky or heavens were closer at
one time to the Earth.

It seems to be clearly indicated that at one
point in human History,
the Gods, angels etc. traveled freely between Earth
and Heaven and clearly
that interaction between the Divine and the Humans
was common place...

Then something drastic, cataclysmic happened
and the link physically
broke, or was broken by the Gods for whatever
reason, and mankind was literally
left on his own to fend for himself. We will detail
this theme more in
out summary. This page will present excerpts and
links on themes and legends
dealing specifically with references to the ladder.

"Most of us are familiar with the story of Jacob’s
ladder, wherein the son of Isaac dreamt he
saw a ladder extending to
heaven. The passage in question has long formed a
crux for students of
the Old Testament: “And he dreamed, and behold a
ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold
the angels of God ascending
and descending on it.”"

"The passage describing Jacob’s ladder
appears as if out of thin
air, with little regard for context or a
commonsense understanding of the
natural world. It is as if the story’s original
background had been lost
to the redactors of the Old Testament. Whatever
the circumstances behind
the decision to include the story in its present
minimalist form, it is
evident that the tradition of Jacob’s ladder was
deemed too important to
be omitted entirely."

"That the Biblical account of Jacob’s ladder
contains ideas of
great antiquity and popularity has long been
noted.2 Indeed, the ladder-to-heaven
motif can be found on all inhabited continents
(F52 in Thompson’s Index).
The present study will offer a crosscultural
analysis of the ladder-to-heaven
and discuss its relationship to other well-known
mythological motifs. At
the conclusion of our survey, an attempt will be
made to reconstruct the
extraordinary events that inspired the
ladder-to-heaven complex, thereby
allowing us to better understand its original
historical context."

When the sky was near.

"A seemingly universal belief holds that in
primeval times heaven
was located fairly close to earth—so
close, in fact, that traffic
between
the two was commonplace. It was in such
times, according
to the testimony of sacred traditions around the
world, that a luminous
ladder spanned the sky thereby allowing
for ready access to the
celestial kingdom. By one calamity or another, the
ladder-to-heaven
eventually collapsed and the sky was uplifted
to its present height, often amidst cataclysmic
circumstances..."

Below are short snippits to illustrate the
point, the detailed accounts
are in the PDF File
Here...

James Frazer summarized West African lore as
follows:

“In almost all the series of native
traditions there, you will
find accounts of a time when there was direct
intercourse between the gods
or spirits that live in the sky, and men. That
intercourse is always said
to have been cut off by some human error;...

Similar beliefs are conspicuous in South
Africa. Witness the following
traditions collected by Breutz:...

The ladder-to-heaven motif is also attested in
Aboriginal Australia...

Chinese lore recalls a time when a ladder
spanned heaven, thereby
allowing regular trafficking between the two worlds.
Yuan Ke summarized
the various traditions as follows:

“In those days there was a ladder
between heaven and earth. The
gods and fairies and witches
all came and went easily between the two places.”

That the “gods and fairies and witches”
employed the ladder-to-heaven
in their ascents and descents recalls the Biblical
report that “the angels
of God” made a practice of ascending and descending
Jacob’s ladder.

The ladder-to-heaven motif is particularly
prominent in the New World.
Thus, the pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas
observed that “the scaling
of heaven is a saga which occurs very often in
America.”...

Traditions of primeval ascents to heaven along
ladders or chains
of arrows are common in South America as well...

As the above samples clearly show the legends are
surprisingly similar
around the world. The article contains all the details
of the various legends
for further reading. The reference to the lower sky in
our opinion is that
before the deluge our study group believes that clouds
covered the Earth
much like Venus. This is covered in great detail in
another section not
yet completed. The other and also very likely
possibility is that the "distance"
is merely symbolic, as people in those days may have
assumed "Heaven" was
close because of the ease of travel between the two
realms. A Star Gate
like portal, or a hovering spacecraft with an actual
ladder would cover
this hypothesis, but it is our contention that the
Star Gate hypothesis
is the correct interpretation.

The various references to the "World Tree"
describe it also as a
"ladder" by which Heaven can be reached and further
describe it as being
in the center of the World. Cross reference to the
description of Mount
Meru or Sumeru and you will see a consistent pattern
emerge.

The most important thing that we have
discovered so far is that something
so big and catastrophic happened that left a lasting
impression on virtually
all the races on the planet. In an attempt to pick
up the pieces, and tell
the story, the remnants of survivors told the story
from their perspective
and with time differences appear, yet the core
belief remains...

"So tragic and lamentable were the
spectacular events
remembered as the “departure of the gods” that
ancient peoples everywhere
sought to recreate or re-experience the Eden-like
conditions that prevailed
during the Golden Age."

Further adding to the narrative, the author
points out the connection
between the "ladder to heaven" and the connection to
the ladder leading
to the sun God's abode

"Sumerian texts
allude to a sacred “bond”—Duranki—stretching
between heaven (An) and earth (Ki). The fact
that the Sumerian word dur
signifies “umbilical cord” as well as “bond”
is only to be expected in
light of the traditions from Indonesia and
Mesoamerica. In a Sumerian account
of the Creation, the god Enlil resolves to
separate heaven from earth by establishing the
axis mundi at Duranki.
Significantly, the cosmic site associated with
this seminal event was known
as “Where Flesh Came Forth”:

“Samas, you
have opened the bolts of the doors of heaven.
You have ascended the staircase
of pure lapis lazuli"

"The idea that the ancient sun-god was
formerly associated with
a ladder-like structure is surprisingly
widespread. Of the structure depicted
in figure one, the anthropologist Robert Zingg
quotes a native Huichol
informant to the effect that it had reference to
an ancient myth and “represented
the ladder on which the Sun-father came out of
the sea when he was born.”"

The current Sun, needless to say, does not
regularly appear in
conjunction with a luminous staircase. Hence the
glaring anomaly presented
by such widespread traditions, attested in the New
World and Old World
alike.

In order to understand the traditions of a
ladder associated with
the ancient sun-god it is instructive to consider
the evidence from rock
art. Witness the image represented in figure two,
from prehistoric California:
Here a ladder-like form distends downwards from a
so-called sun image.
Inasmuch as this image has no obvious reference in
the current skies, scholars
might be inclined to overlook its possible relevance
to the mythological
motif under discussion here. Yet once consider the
possibility, however
remote, that this image commemorates a former
configuration in the sky—one
centered on the ancient sun-god—and it is obvious
that it immediately clarifies
the universal belief in a ladder-to-heaven. For if
such a configuration
was once prominent in the sky, can there be any
doubt but that traditions
of a ladder leading to the sun would be sure to
follow?.

Far from being confined
to the New World, similar images will be
found around the globe. Witness the examples
depicted in figure three.
In this scene, carved into a rock face in
Yorkshire England, the solar
“ladders” come to predominate. Particularly
notable is the fact that the
English “suns,” like their Californian
counterpart, are represented as
a circle or disk with a dark dot in the middle.
This will prove to be a
valuable clue as to the original identity of the
“sun” in question.

The Author sites the
above pictures as examples in his rather startling
conclusion explaining the existance of these
symbols in a complicated pattern
of Plasma based phenomenon.

"If the axis mundi was indeed a
plasma-based phenomenon, it stands
to reason that it might be compared to a living
structure or “flesh,” since
plasmas often produce selfgenerated and evolving
forms (Irving Langmuir
chose the word plasma to describe such
electro-magnetic phenomena because
they closely imitated organic forms and
processes).The
cosmic umbilicus uniting heaven and earth, in
this sense, was very much
a “living rope,” as reported by the
Maya and other aboriginal peoples.

The World Tree, compared to the “flesh of
the gods” by the scribes
of ancient Mesopotamia, finds a striking
analogue in the recent discovery
of the unique (and characteristic) behavior of
plasma-generated structures
(Peratt’s figure 28). As the “steps” or “arms”
of the ladder curl upwards
the result is a tree-like image. Thus it is that
countless mythical images,
long since considered fantastic in nature and
insusceptible to scientific
analysis, find immediate clarification courtesy
of Peratt’s elegant hypothesis.
It is no exaggeration to say that a revolution
is at hand in our ability
to understand, model,and reconstruct the recent
history of the solar system."

The existence of an actual physical
bridge or gateway
between Heaven and Earth is someting we at Pegasus
do not deny, but we
have found strong evedence that this connection is a
Star Gate, connected
by a wormhole... which we have found numerous
references to especially
in regards to the circle with the dark hole in the
center. We believe what
ancients are describing is a series of steps
entering the portal. The above
high lighted statement of a "living rope" and the
"lightning rope" mentioned
in his text can just as easily describe a wormhole.

Genesis
2812And he dreamed that there was a ladder* set up on the
earth, the
top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God
were ascending and
descending on it. 17And he was afraid, and said, ‘How awesome is this
place! This is
none other than the house of God, and this is the gate
of heaven.’*Or stairway or ramp

The reference clearly indicates the recurring
theme in old religious
texts of the coming and going of angels between
heaven and earth as if
it was a normal activity. And Jacob does then
declare the place to be the
gate of heaven. Though this is a dream, it never the
less illustrates the
mind set of the day.

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